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Science 10 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5766, p. 1379
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125183
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Humanity Usurps Nature

Bill Chameides

The Weather Makers
How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flanner

Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2006. 381 pp. $24. ISBN 0-87113-935-9.

The Weather Makers
The History and Future Impact of Climate Change
Allen Lane, London, 2006. £N 0-713-99921-7.

Besides offering an accessible overview of the history, science, and politics of climate change, the author suggests what must be done to restrain global warming.

The reviewer is in the MIT Anthropology Program, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 16-267, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA. E-mail: guster{at}mit.edu

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